A/N : I'm really sorry. I didn't have any chance to update this story. (Well, now I do)


Chapter 12 : CTF match. Part 2

I. Eternal Cave.

Arena : Eternal Cave. Music : Foregone Destruction

CTF

Blood Reaver vs. Iron Guard. 5 vs. 5

The eternal cave arena, in the first time I played on this arena, I was a little bit confused because the cave was just like maze. There were 2 paths to the enemy base, One through the upper hall, one through the lower hall.

The Red Cave (The flag position) formed a ring. In the center of the ring there was the Red Flag. Players could jump or translocate or go to the other side of the cave and walk on a small bridge that connected the cave and the flag. The Blue Cave was different. Player had to walk on a small, long bridge to go to the Blue Flag.

I respawned on the lower hall. I quickly take all of the weapon in there, then went to the Blue Cave to steal the Blue Flag. In the Blue lower hall, I met Koden, who was also an attacker.

He threw an E-T-C bomb at me. It exploded on the rock behind me.

"You should work on your aim! My turn!" I pulled out a shock rifle and fired an ASMD plasma ball at him. He dodged easily. "Ha! That's what you call an attack?"

"No" I quickly shoot an ASMD plasma beam at the plasma ball, caused shock combo. Koden was thrown away to the left. He quickly got up and created a string from his finger. As the string hit my shock rifle, he took it away from my hand. I quickly summoned a plasma minigun and fired it at him. He almost dodged the all of the plasma projectiles, but the last plasma projectile hit his chest, fragged him.

I ran to the Blue cave. When I reached the cave, I saw no one guarding the flag. I quickly ran to the Blue Flag. Suddenly I stepped on something that made me slipped and fell down, not on the bridge, but on the boiling lava below it.

I know who made me fall down. It was Gaara and his sand. He placed some sand on the bridge to trap an attacker that came to steal the flag. Good strategy, but I doubt he was the one who created it.


After being melted by lava, I respawned in the Red lower hall. After taking some supplies, I went back to the Blue Cave. This time, I saw Brock and Johnson guarding the flag. I looked at the bridge. There was still some sand there. I quickly pulled out a translocator and throw a translocator disc at the blue flag. As the disc touched the ground, I activated the translocator and teleported to the disc location. I quickly took the flag and switched to rocket launcher. I loaded two rockets and fired it at Gaara, who was standing on the edge of the cliff. He could block the first rocket, but the second one hit the wall he was leaning against. He was thrown away and fell down to the lava.

I aimed my rocket launcher at Johnson and shot a seeking rocket at him. He tried to dodge it, but the seeking rocket kept flying toward him. He was blown up into pieces as the rocket hit him. I was about to shoot another rocket at Brock, but when I pulled the trigger, nothing came out. I checked the ammo counter. The number was 000. It was empty

Brock quickly switched to Flak Cannon and started launching some shells at me. I rolled forward to dodge the oncoming shells. I almost fell down when I stopped rolling. I quickly got up and went to the stairs. I quickly switched to Impact Hammer, the most useless weapon. I held the trigger. The piston was pulled backward. I ran to Brock and let go the trigger. The piston went back to its previous position very fast. The piston hit Brock's fast in the process. The powerful force sent Brock flying backward and crashed him up against the rock. He was long dead before his body touched the ground.


I made my way to the red base using the upper hall. There wasn't any Iron Guard player there. I arrived at the Red Cave without any fight. I quickly put the Blue Flag in the Red Flag. The flag disappeared and my team earned a score.

I changed my strategy after that. I ordered Kyla to assault the base while the others guarding the flag. She took the lower hall while I took the upper hall. I didn't find anyone wearing blue vest on my way to the blue cave. It made me feel a little worried about what was going on in the lower hall. I decided to contact Kyla. "Kyla, report in."

"Nothing's going on here, red leader" answered that Nali tattoo-ed Blood Reaver.

"You better be cautious. Maybe they've set some trap." I turned off the comm. and continued running to the blue cave.

I still haven't found any Iron Guard players. I'd looked everywhere and there was still no sign of those smuggler guards*. Not long after I arrived at the blue cave, Kyla came out from the lower hall. She was unharmed. That made me felt strange. "Kyla, search in the cave over there" I pointed at a small cave where the blue team respawned. She nodded and ran to the cave. Not for a long time, she came back. "Nothing" said Kyla.

"Wait here and keep an eye on the halls. Tell me if you find something" Then I ran to the bridge. I turned my head back. Kyla looked at me and shook her head. My head went back to the flag. But when I was about to touch the flag, Kyla suddenly yelled at me. "STOP!"

I almost jumped to the lava pool below me. I turned my head to Kyla. I saw her pointing a rocket launcher at the bridge. "Don't take it. There is a translocator disc on it." Said her.

I saw the flag pole. She was right : there was a disc with blue light surrounding its antenna. I quickly shot it with an enforcer. As the bullet hit the disc, electricity came out from the antenna. It became malfunctioned

Kyla launched a seeking rocket to the bridge. As the rocket exploded, a man with blue vest appeared from below. It was Brock. Apparently, he was hanging under the bridge all the time, and not just him, all of the Iron Guard were hiding under the bridge. But when I was about to take the flag, Brock moved a little. Unfortunately, Kyla saw it and exploded a rocket on the bridge, made him lost his balance and fell down to the lava pool.

I quickly grabbed the flag pole and ran before the rest of the Iron Guard climbed up. Suddenly I heard Kyla shouted "Duck!". I ducked, Kyla quickly launched 2 rockets at once. As they hit the bridge, 4 Iron Guard players fell down.


We quickly ran to the upper level, where players seldom respawned. No one was there. Kyla stopped by on a little room to pick up a shield belt. After a while, we went back to our business. Suddenly I heard Jonathan reported "We got 5 Iron Guard players incoming!"

"Hold your position until we get there! Don't let them take the flag!" answered me.

I could hear some weapons being fired from below. As I reached the cave entrance, a rocket passed by from above and exploded on the ceiling. I looked at the surrounding. I could see that the Iron Guard was owning, not just because they had better soldiers, or because they outnumbered the Reavers, but also because they had better weaponry.

I quickly fired some rockets at every Iron Guard I saw. It was funny to see them being thrown and bouncing like balls. Suddenly Johnson ran toward me and dragged me to the edge of the cave. Then he punched me with his fist. I counter attacked him with a kick on his stomach. A wrong target, because he wore an iron vest, so instead of him, I was the one who got hurt because of my own kick. Then he sent me another fist, but I was ready that time. I ducked and tackled his feet. I quickly held him and threw him to the chasm of deadly boiling lava. It didn't give me a frag, but I didn't really care because it was not deathmatch, where we have to kill the other players. It was Capture the flag match.

I got up and looked at my surrounding. Kyla had defeated Lauren in an epic Impact Hammer battle. Jojo was nailed by Koden's E-T-C bombs. And Archer was destroyed by Gaara's sand. And Shingo, well, he tried to defeat Johnson with "Burning Shingo" DM, but when he was about to land a devastating final charge, Johnson rolled to the left and tackled his feet. Then Shingo joined Brock in the lava pool.

I pulled out my ripper and started a 'banzai' mad dash at Johnson first. He had no time to evade this and was tackled. I quickly stab his chest and killed him. Suddenly, something pulled my ripper and took it away from my hand. I saw who took it. It was Koden. "Stealer…" I commented. I quickly pulled out some razorblades and started to throw them at both Koden and Gaara. Gaara blocked all of the razorblade with his sand. Koden turned into a water pool to evade the oncoming razorblades. After the razorblades passed, he turned back to his normal form. "You missed!"

But the razorblades I threw bounced back to him and hit his shoulders. He was killed not long after that. I took my ripper back and started to fire some explosive razorblades. Gaara blocked all of the razorblades without even moving.

"That sand barrier is strong. Okay! If my weapons can't go through it, I'm going to drill it first!" I pulled out a pulse gun and began to fire a plasma laser bolt.

The process was long, but finally the result appeared. After drilling the sand, the laser hit Gaara. Not for a while, he was killed. Then I ran to my team's flag and capture the Blue Flag. Another score for my team!


After everyone was respawned, we set another strategy. Kyla, Jojo and Archer would defend the entrances. Shingo and I would take the upper hall to take the flag.

When we reached the blue cave, we encountered Koden and Gaara. I quickly summoned a plasma minigun. As I pulled the trigger to maximum, the minigun roared and let out many plasma projectiles. The defenders ran to avoid my plasma bullets, including Gaara. But not for a while, my minigun stopped firing. It was empty! Shit!

Koden and Gaara didn't waste this opportunity. They quickly attacked us with anything they had. Both Shingo and I were trying to avoid their attacks, only Shingo had just gone too far, that he jumped down to the lava pool when avoiding Koden's E-T-C bomb.

The Iron Guard defenders' blind attacks made a smokescreen around the cave. I crawled on the floor so they couldn't hit me. It really worked for the E-T-C bombs, but not for Gaara's sand. I still had to avoid the sand. If it touched me a little, I'd be done for.

I crawled slowly and carefully. "Almost there" I muttered. The flag was right in front of me. I stretched my hand and grabbed the…

Log : "Hande has the blue flag"

Suddenly Koden and Gaara stopped. As the sand storm and lightning storm (or E-T-C storm, depends on how you call it) stopped, the smokescreen began to disappear. I quickly grab my pulse gun and dashed to the lower hall before the smokescreen had completely gone.


I arrived to the hall before they noticed me. It looked like that nothing would stand in my way. But in the entrance to the red cave, I saw Brock and other Iron Guard blocking the way. They were armed with high-class weapons.

As they saw me, they fired each of their weapons. I somersaulted back and fired a plasma beam at them. Johnson and Brock avoided it. But Lauren didn't move at all. Not for a minute, she was toasted by the laser bolt. Then I turned off the beam and lunged forward, leaving my enemies behind.

I arrived at the red cave. I turned left and yelled to the Reaver defenders, "2 Iron Guards incoming!". They quickly prepared their weapon. As soon as the Iron Guards appeared, they were rained by rockets and other painful projectiles. I gave the defenders 2 thumbs up and placed the blue flag at the red flag.

"Congratulations, you are the winner."


*The Iron Guard was suspected as Jihan Nyhn's guard. Jihan Nyhn was known as a smuggler in the unreal world. For more information, visit liandri archives at liandri(dot)beyondunreal(dot)com. Then search for "Iron Guard"

A/N : Phew. That took a lot of me. The next chapter coming soon.